by CSES Staff | Mar 22, 2018 | New research synopsis
The Bipolar Voter: On the Effects of Actual and Perceived Party Polarization on Voter Turnout in Multiparty Democracies Mert Moral Although it has long been argued that both diversity and distinctiveness of party policy offerings influence electoral behavior, few...
by CSES Staff | Jan 25, 2018 | New research synopsis
How Does Partisanship Irrationalize the Decision to Vote in Western and Postcommunist Democracies? Dong-Joon Jung The rational choice model of voting assumes that people decide whether to vote as a consequence of the calculation of the benefits and costs associated...
by CSES Staff | Aug 16, 2017 | New research synopsis
Directional and Proximity Models of Party Preferences in a Cross-national Context Bojan Todosijević Normative theory suggests that choosing an ideologically close political party is a sign of rational political behavior. Reality, however, sometimes differs from the...
by CSES Staff | Jun 23, 2017 | GESIS Klingemann Prize winners, New research synopsis
The 2017 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best Scholarship using CSES data was awarded to Dani Marinova of the Autonomous University of Barcelona for her book “Coping with Complexity: How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties” that was published by ECPR Press in...
by CSES Staff | May 3, 2017 | New research synopsis
Explaining the Trump Victory: Populist Sentiments and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Deirdre Tinney and Stephen Quinlan As the world peers into the crystal ball era of Brexit and President Trump, it has become clear that we need to talk about populism. These...
by CSES Staff | Jan 9, 2017 | New research synopsis
Party-switching Between Elections is Influenced by Polarization, not the Number of Parties Yves Dejaeghere and Ruth Dassonneville In 1979 Mogens Pedersen published a seminal paper in which he analyzed the impact of party-system variables on inter-electoral...
